Monthly Archives: May 2012

iPhone Published Articles Smartphones

Three free apps for securely signing documents with your iPhone | TechRepublic

May 14, 2012 – 6:51 pm

With today’s mobile and geographically dispersed teams, subscription-based eSignature platforms like Adobe EchoSign and DocuSign are more secure and sane options for sending documents for signoff than emailing PDF documents, having the recipient print them out, sign them in ink, scan the document to PDF again, and then send them back to the sender. Take one of these eSignature platforms a step further and integrate it into a CRM or document workflow, and documents can be sent securely to multiple mobile users who can sign off the documents from their iPhone.

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Project Management Published Articles Tablets in the Enterprise

Tablet apps for project managers | TechRepublic

May 11, 2012 – 9:33 pm

Project management can be a very mobile profession, and there are quite a few project management apps available for tablets. Tablet clients for cloud-based apps and standalone project management apps each have their drawbacks, but the potential is there to manage an entire project from the mobility of a tablet.

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Book Reviews Books Web/Tech

Book Review: Using Drupal (O’Reilly Press)

May 10, 2012 – 7:58 pm

Using Drupal by Angela Byron, Addison Berry, and Bruno De Bondt is a comprehensive introduction to Drupal that can help get your first Drupal project off the ground.

Learning Drupal is a personal project of mine of mine this year, so reading this book was definitely part of my education. I compliment the authors on the friendly and warm writing style in the book. The book provides a solid introduction into the world of Drupal including starting with a history of content management on the web, and then delving into how Drupal works.

Some notable parts of this book (for me at least) are:

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Life Technical Writing Work

Part-Time Offsite Projects: Another Perspective

May 5, 2012 – 12:19 pm


So much is written about the part-time writer or freelancer being the one who complicates part-time working arrangements – they do this, they do that, part-time freelancing during your off hours is going to melt your brain and turn you into a hermit and so forth. These articles only tell half the story and actually do a disservice to such projects.

I’ve freelanced during my off hours for a large part of my career successfully but with a few bumps in the road along the way. However, as much is written about the freelancer fumbling, the employer/client can also drop the ball and put what should be a simple exercise into the wall. Some ways include:

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Mobile Devices Mobile Writing Samples Published Articles Tablets in the Enterprise

Put mobile BI on your corporate tablets | TechRepublic

May 2, 2012 – 7:22 pm

Business Intelligence BI is becoming a strategic tool for businesses as they try to navigate through the current economic shoals by staying up to date on critical business data. Now, tablets can take the advancements of the dashboard to a mobile form factor.In fact, mobile BI apps can help democratize business intelligence and put instant access about sales, logistics, product, and customer data into the hands of mobile workers, like sales people and field engineers. In addition, you don’t need to be a report writer to pull data out of a mobile BI app, which makes it an ideal tool for an executive team who might lack the technology skills but still need access to corporate data.

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Book Reviews Books Web/Tech

Book Review: Take Control of BBEdit

May 1, 2012 – 10:11 pm

I rank BBEdit as one of those applications that few mortals ever get to make really hum. It has many features under the hood that go underutilized or completely forgotten. Take Control of BBEdit  by Glenn Fleishman dives into this complex application.

Fleishman’s approach in the book is to take the reader through install, setup, and working with the various BBEdit features, working with documents, writing more efficiently with BBEdit’s tools, editing text, wrangling text (automating reusable text elements), search and replace, and then through working with web pages and sites. He does a great job of putting together how BBEdit users had to put together working with text, managing web sites, and managing projects to maximize BBEdit.

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